Dynamics of conversion of supercurrents into normal currents, and vice versa
arXiv:cond-mat/0106348 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.64.104515
Abstract
The generation and destruction of the supercurrent in a superconductor (S) between two resistive normal (N) current leads connected to a current source is computed from the source equation for the supercurrent density. This equation relates the gradient of the pair potential's phase to electron and hole wavepackets that create and destroy Cooper pairs in the N/S interfaces. Total Andreev reflection and supercurrent transmission of electrons and holes are coupled together by the phase rigidity of the non-bosonic Cooper-pair condensate. The calculations are illustrated by snapshots from a computer film.
8 pages, 1 figure, accepted by Phys. Rev. B
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